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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

9,416 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

Police Courts. Betting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 6

At the Burwood Police Court yesterday, Reginald Annand, 41, clerk, was fined £5 on two charges of tote betting on Saturday. GAOL FOR IMPOSTERS…

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Butter Deal False Pretences Alleged Couple Charged

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 12

Herbert Spencer Cooke, 30, agent, and Doris Mavis Cooke, 32, domestic, were charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having between…

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Insurance Against Theft Claim on City Council for Tools

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 6

Following a claim for compensation for carpenters' tools stolen from the temporary fruit markets in Hay St., the City Council yesterday afternoon…

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Bail Fixed at £1000 Man Charged with False Pretences

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 11

BAIL of £1000 was allowed by Mr. Gibson, S.M., at Central Police Court, yesterday, when Prank Joseph Lappen Measures,…

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Hid Stolen Notes in Boot Seaman Fined £3 for Theft

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 9

On Saturday Vincent Lopez, a Mosman fruiterer, gave Torio Teodor Persson, 38, a seaman, a job to clean the premises, and paid him in fruit…

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Country Girl Investigations By Police

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 16

After a medical examination yesterday a country girl, aged 14. was placed in a shelter by Sergeant Armfield, chief of the women police, and…

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Police Guard for Paddington School

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 5

SPECIAL police detachments have been appointed to attend Paddington Public School this morning to guard against…

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Man Injured. Refused Information to Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 10

J. Shaw, 27, of Denison-street, Camperdown, was found lying unconscious on the roadway of King-street, St. Peters, shortly before midnight on Saturday. He was bleeding from…

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Insurance Men Arrested Police Seizure of Documents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 1

INVESTIGATIONS by detectives of the affairs of several city insurance companies were followed yesterday afternoon by…

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Stowaway is Plain Mr. "X" in Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 7

AUCKLAND, Monday. -- A stowaway, who appeared at Suva Court as Mr. "X" because he refused his name, was a…

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Hit by Axe Constable's Story In Court

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 12

Father and son--James Byrnes (59) and James George. Byrnes (18)-- appeared at Balmain Court to-day, the former on charges of having…

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National Park Murder Inquest Opened. Woman Identifies Craig. Bessie O'connor's Companion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 9

The proprietress of a kiosk at Tom Ugly's Point yesterday identified, in the Coroner's Court, Eric Roland Craig, 25, as the companion of Elizabeth Isabel O'Connor, 16, on…

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Sydney Tech. College Site's Grim Past Was Once School of Crime Old Darlinghurst Gaol Early History

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 4

MANY visitors passing Sydney Technical College, and seeing the bright-eyed students entering the portals, are amazed to learn that the grey building was once a gaol, where scholars in the school of crime received from the lips of older evildoers instruction in the arts of…

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Police Kept Crowd on the Move No Demonstration At School

The Sun · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 9

POLICE near the Paddington Public School to-day prevented any organised demonstration against the…

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Police Boxes in Wide Area Childs' Letter to City Council

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 11

"It is proposed to erect police boxes not only in the city, but throughout the metropolitan district from Auburn to Hornsby" wrote the…

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Bodies Should Be Left Until the Police Arrive Bathurst Case Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 5

"I think, in future, that it would[?] be the correct, procedure for you [?] to notify the Police in any case [?] of death, before interfering o[?] by…

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7I-yrs Old Agent on £1000 Bail Frauds Involve £10,000. Declares Police Prosecutor. Three Counts

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 5

WHEN Frank Joseph Lappen Measures, 71, agent, was remanded at Central Court yesterday. Mr. Gibson, S.M., allowed bail of…

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"Mixed Foursome" on Burglary Charge

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 5

TWO charges of breaking, entering and stealing over £800 worth of goods from two flats were preferred against…

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Death of Child. Father Charged with Murder. Appeal From the Dock. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 14

Before Mr. Justice Owen Dixon and a jury at Canberra to-day the second trial was commenced of Bertram Edward Porter, 26, sheet metal worker, who is charged with having, at…

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Sent Back to Gaol

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 6

Sentence of six months imprison went was passed on Guide Callett 4, a laborer, by Mr. Macdougal S. M. at the Central Court yesterday…

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